The Ultimate Question, part 229

Brennan: [after catching the head that fell from the tree] I am going to need an evidence bag!

Booth: Heads up!

[the rest of the body falls in front of Brennan]

Brennan: I am going to need a bigger bag.

- Bones

The Ultimate Question, part 228

“...most people are almost blind and they don’t see most things and there is lots of spare capacity in their heads and it is filled with things which aren’t connected and are silly, like, “I’m worried that I might have left the gas cooker on.” 

- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

The Ultimate Question, part 227

Mattis: You stay here and keep a guarding hand on Lovis. What's so funny?
Skalle-Per: I'm to keep a guarding hand on Lovis?
Mattis: Yes. In case a brute comes, or such.
Skalle-Per: If a brute comes and takes on Lovis, then I'd have to keep a guarding hand on the brute instead!

- Ronian the Robber's Daughter (film)

The Ultimate Question, part 226

"Good morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out farther than the brim of his shady hat.
   "What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?"
   "All of them at once," said Bilbo.

- The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien

The Ultimate Question, part 225

"I don't exactly know what I am required to say in order for you to have intercourse with me. But could we assume that I said all that. I mean essentially we are talking about fluid exchange right? So could we go just straight to the sex."

- John Nash's pick-up line in A Beautiful Mind

The Ultimate Question, part 224

"[note to Watson] If convenient, come at once. If inconvenient, come all the same.

- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

The Ultimate Question, part 223

Booth: You're a smart ass, you know that?

Brennan: Objectively I'd say I'm very smart, although it has nothing to do with my ass.

- Bones

The Ultimate Question, part 222

"What they failed to teach you at school was that the whole business of being human just got messier and more complicated as you got older. You could tell the truth, be polite, take everyone's feelings into consideration and still have to deal with other people's shit. At nine or ninety."


- A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon

The Ultimate Question, part 221

"Which one was first, egg or hen, and what was rooster's part in the business?"

- Abiturs' parody about matriculation examination questions

The Ultimate Question, part 119

“Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.”

- The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon